Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 21:15:44 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Glenn Johnson <gljohnsn@iamerica.net> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.1 --> 3.0-current Message-ID: <19033.863669744@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 May 1997 22:30:02 CDT." <199705150330.WAA05549@Gforce.iamerica.net>
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> Greetings, > > I currently have FreeBSD 2.2.1 installed. I am getting ready to add a second > processor to my system and therefore need to use FreeBSD-current. What is the To go to freebsd-current, I really don't recommend doing it via make world. It's possible, of course, but there are enough "gotchas" that it's really more recommended that you start with one of the 3.0 snapshots at ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD instaed. If you're dead-set on doing it the source way, just watch out for the 8 -> 16 character username limit (recompile anything that might write utmp entries, like xterm or sshd) and be prepared to possibly bootstrap parts of the build process by hand. Finally, don't forget to migrate the files from /usr/src/etc! All in all, backing up your user files and installing the snapshot sounds a lot easier to me. :-) [though you'll still need to rebuild your sshd/xterm/... thingies]. Jordan
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